I'm not quite sure what this diagram had to do with the discussion, but it seems that putting Curation after Dissemination is rather shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Let me try to explain then.
Don't associate me with any of that. These people broke the law within the first few seconds when they rode recklessly through a red light. I stopped the video at that point. I saw nothing there related to what I was talking about, which in case I ws not clear was about pernickety regulations on the power of assisted bikes.
For us, that seems so dangerous. One would have thought that quite soon his luck would run out and he'd stop doing that. He must therefore be more in control than it looks like, so you have to admire the skill if you ignore the lawlessness. I couldn't see if he had a front brake. His braking looked very effective with or without it, which reminds me of the case where the guy on a fixie with no front brake killed a woman. A policeman, presumably not a skilled fixie rider, tested the bike and came to the conclusion that the braking distance was too large, though I'd bet that the rider could always stop quicker than we can with out electric bikes. I wonder how long their back tyres last.
Of course I don't. I just wanted to show you why there should be accountability. What you propose is to give those idiots right to legally buy mopeds and join traffic without any control.
They rarely give any details of accidents. Watch more than just few seconds or just scroll to 2 minutes 10 seconds. Would you blame bus driver or cyclist?
Skills they have, there are no doubts about that. Both of them.
You can say that every time you ride your bike or drive your car. you need a greater margin of error than him. He has immense skill and judgement, so he can use much smaller margins of error. You're applying your frame of reference to him, so to you, it looks dangerous. I feel the same when I see it, but then I apply logic. If it's as dangerous as it looks, he'd either be in jail or in hospital, but he must have done it a lot to get those sort of skills. In that case, it's probably not as dangerous as it looks - for him, not us.
It's not as dangerous as it looks and as a lad I might have pulled off a few similar moves myself. But it's not representative either - they're in central London (Oxford Street) where the traffic never moves faster than a walking pace. The weather is good, but their safety also depends to a large extent on other traffic/pedestrians moving out of the way. That doesn't happen on suburban roads where the traffic is pushing 30mph (maybe 40) and there are mums with prams, school kids, dog walkers and 101 other hazards to put them, and others, in hospital.
Yes, we've chatted about that before. I uploaded destructions.
You really should do it - it does seem folks who find hill ascension difficult, have bought the wrong conversion kit combination or motor type, or haven't configured firmware properly. I was quite content with my legal 250W manufacturer rated 36V BBS01B 20" wheeled Dahon conversion's hill climbing and bicycle trailer hauling capabiliy with the controller limit at 15A, but it's even better at 18A. Faster uphill at 18A, but it conquered any hill with only 15A anyway. Even with your heavier bodyweight and larger wheels, I'm sure you'd find 36V X 20A = legal 720W pedal assist with "Keep current" in firmware at 100% satisfactory. Most batteries seem ok discharging 15A continously, but it might first be a good idea to post details about your battery and BMS before increasing the amperage limit of your controller to 20A, for the battery experts to peruse.
Heavier body weight??
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Heavier, like I saidHeavier body weight??
I'm a bit over twelve stone....
Keep screenshots of your original settings, and save a config file, just in case - when I increased controller amperage limit, it wouldn't change first couple of tries... but then it threw a fit and many parameters changed to strange values all over the place.
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So, once again, it looks like the ill informed promulgate the misunderstood.
I do wish the throttle on my BBS01B kit did that, but the speed is set pedalling or not, and the lowest it can be set is 15kph - throttles on cheap non-KT hub drive bikes seem to operate similarly ie set to some speed, and reading some threads, sometimes set too low. After firmware finangling, I'm quite content without a throttle.
The proposal for a full-time full-power throttle option (up 15.5mph) is the best aspect of all this. To suggest that throttles are unnecessary is to ignore the wants and needs of perhaps the biggest and fastest-growing sector of the whole cycling market - newcomers and returnees - who are so badly needed. To these people, throttles are fundamental to safety and are the gateway to a confident and enjoyable cycling future (I do not say that lightly). Who cares if you have to pedal or not? At least you're out and about on a bike.
